Deforestation refers to act of cutting down or burning trees in forests in order to make land to serve building activities or farming. According to Angelsen in 1995, deforestation meanings destruction or loss of vegetation, from losing completely or permanently to changing gradually in the economical component (Angelsen 1995). In fact, in the world, there are roughly 300 km hectares of forests being cut down and approximately 13 million hectares disappearing annually (International Union for the Conservation of Nature 2012), on average, every two seconds having a forest which is worth a football field destroyed. Therefore, deforestation causes many bad effects on the environment and people. It is estimated that cutting down forest contributes
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Causes
Deforestation has several reasons, but there are three main causes, including over mining, making fields to crop and producing papers and wood products. All of them lead to serious effects for forests, even destroy them completely.
First, over mining is the big one of three factors leading to rainforest destroyed everyday. What is mine? “Mine is an action digging holes in the ground to find and obtain coal, diamonds, etc” (Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary 2016). Actually, Brayan Peter said that this is an industry making money. Minerals and metals are absolutely useful for both companies and governments.Employees also get income and benefits in this (B. Peter, 2016). However, mining is an environmentally destructive activity, especially for rainforest. It cannot be denied that rainforests are naturally rich in important and valuable metals such as cooper, tin, gold, silver, diamonds and others (C. Lefevre, 2014). In order to mine, all trees and vegetation in the forests must be cut down or burned. (Perterson and Heemskerk, 2001). This makes all animals in there lose their home and die, even be extinct. Therefore, miners and mining operations are a probably big threat to the tropical rainforest ecosystems (R. Butler, 2012). In the world, mining exists in most places, especially in Guyana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and ASEAN countries, or in the US In South America, Amazonia region, Guyana, Suriname, and other South American countries. These places …show more content…
It is an international problem and it also a concern of most customers when they buy wood products (Newswire 2012). This is responsibility of both the government and citizens in preventing and banning illegal logging by stopping the supply and demand for illegal timber (European Forest Institute 2014). It cannot denied that this is absolutely difficult and dangerous mission so we need to have long-term and careful strategies. Canada is one of countries leading this campaign with five ways preventing illegal logging such as enacting forests laws, fining illegal wood imports and exports, etc (Natural Resources Canada 2012). Therefore, stopping unlawful activities also contributes restore forest resources
Causes
Deforestation has several reasons, but there are three main causes, including over mining, making fields to crop and producing papers and wood products. All of them lead to serious effects for forests, even destroy them completely.
First, over mining is the big one of three factors leading to rainforest destroyed everyday. What is mine? “Mine is an action digging holes in the ground to find and obtain coal, diamonds, etc” (Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary 2016). Actually, Brayan Peter said that this is an industry making money. Minerals and metals are absolutely useful for both companies and governments.Employees also get income and benefits in this (B. Peter, 2016). However, mining is an environmentally destructive activity, especially for rainforest. It cannot be denied that rainforests are naturally rich in important and valuable metals such as cooper, tin, gold, silver, diamonds and others (C. Lefevre, 2014). In order to mine, all trees and vegetation in the forests must be cut down or burned. (Perterson and Heemskerk, 2001). This makes all animals in there lose their home and die, even be extinct. Therefore, miners and mining operations are a probably big threat to the tropical rainforest ecosystems (R. Butler, 2012). In the world, mining exists in most places, especially in Guyana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and ASEAN countries, or in the US In South America, Amazonia region, Guyana, Suriname, and other South American countries. These places …show more content…
It is an international problem and it also a concern of most customers when they buy wood products (Newswire 2012). This is responsibility of both the government and citizens in preventing and banning illegal logging by stopping the supply and demand for illegal timber (European Forest Institute 2014). It cannot denied that this is absolutely difficult and dangerous mission so we need to have long-term and careful strategies. Canada is one of countries leading this campaign with five ways preventing illegal logging such as enacting forests laws, fining illegal wood imports and exports, etc (Natural Resources Canada 2012). Therefore, stopping unlawful activities also contributes restore forest resources